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Twin Town High (vol. 8) |
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Topics > News > The Minneapolis Observer |
The Minneapolis Observer is a weekly digest of under-the-radar local news. Each week Pulse offers a summary of The Observer's complete e-mail digest, portions of which are also available at www.mplsobserver.com.  |
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 07 January @ 13:15:56 (Read: 2469) |
by Craig Cox
City convention group pushing for a new downtown hotel
Despite the recent slump in tourism, the local convention and tourism association last week began soliciting proposals to study the feasibility of building a new convention hotel downtown with as many as 1,200 rooms.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Tuesday 30 December @ 17:53:23 (Read: 2500) |
by Craig Cox
Downtown post office could be closed
U.S. Postal Service officials, looking for ways to consolidate Twin Cities mail distribution facilities, are considering plans that may include moving postal operations from downtown Minneapolis.
The move, reports Scott Russell in Skyway News, would free the historic downtown post office for new riverfront development.
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Under-the-radar local info
Tuesday 23 December @ 19:53:32 (Read: 2442) |
by Craig Cox
Sears project could crimp other city housing
initiatives
Amid all the hoopla around the City Council’s decision to award Ryan Companies the right to redevelop the Lake Street Sears complex is a nagging concern that the project could suck up too much public funding.
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Under-the-Radar-Local-Info
Wednesday 17 December @ 14:19:17 (Read: 2483) |
by Craig Cox
Plan first, hire late, says school board member
The School Board, scrambling to recover from the political fallout generated by the recent David Jennings incident, may be moving too quickly to find a new superintendent, one School Board member said last week.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 10 December @ 13:03:30 (Read: 2832) |
by Craig Cox
Park Board names finalists for superintendent job
After three days of interviews last week, the Park Board has narrowed the field of candidates to succeed Superintendent Mary Merrill Anderson to two finalists.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 03 December @ 14:20:31 (Read: 2548) |
by Craig Cox
Critics challenge City’s affordable housing numbers
Mayor R.T. Rybak and city housing officials say they are nearing their annual goal for creating affordable housing, but critics charge that a closer look at the numbers indicate the city has fallen far short of expectations.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 26 November @ 13:52:56 (Read: 2391) |
by Craig Cox
New Civilian Review Authority to begin hearing cases
The restructuring of the city’s much-maligned agency for voicing complaints against police misbehavior has been completed and it will begin hearing cases today.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 19 November @ 13:24:06 (Read: 3276) |
by Craig Cox
Change in governance could affect care at HCMC
A county task force is recommending that control of Hennepin County Medical Center be transferred beginning in 2005 from the County Board of Commissioners to an independent board of directors, a shift in management and accountability that some critics say could affect the level of care provided by the county’s hospital of last resort.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 12 November @ 23:18:23 (Read: 2566) |
by Craig Cox
NAACP drops out of Hollman case
The local chapter of the NAACP has officially bowed out of the Hollman/Heritage Park project, effectively abandoning a campaign it helped to initiate more than 11 years ago.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 05 November @ 11:32:16 (Read: 2764) |
by Craig Cox
Jacobs offers to build downtown marina
Local financier Irwin Jacobs has offered to build a marina near the Park Board’s new riverfront headquarters and share the profits with the city.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 29 October @ 14:49:12 (Read: 2743) |
by Craig Cox
Nursing home battle could have national
implications
A labor-management scuffle at a southwest Minneapolis nursing home could have repercussions for the entire industry.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 22 October @ 11:09:42 (Read: 2582) |
by Craig Cox
City may not pay for alley plowing
As part of its 2004-2005 budget discussion, the City Council for the first time will consider a snowplowing plan that doesn’t include alleys.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 15 October @ 13:41:51 (Read: 2438) |
by Craig Cox
City-HUD disagreement threatens Heritage Park progress
The much-maligned Heritage Park housing project is struggling against yet another legal impasse, this time between the city and the federal government.
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Under-the-Radar Local Info
Wednesday 08 October @ 12:46:04 (Read: 2704) |
by Craig Cox
Black leaders allege police brutality in NAACP fracas
A skirmish at a September 27 meeting of the local NAACP chapter has black leaders calling for an investigation and may endanger the city’s fragile police-community mediation effort.
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Under-the-radar local info
Wednesday 01 October @ 14:22:13 (Read: 2519) |
by Craig Cox
Fundraising for new library falling short
A fundraising shortfall could force the new downtown library to open without several of its planned features, reports Sarah McKenzie in the Skyway News.
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Under-the-radar local info
Thursday 18 September @ 13:27:06 (Read: 2789) |
by Craig Cox
Benson downplays historic domestic partners law
With little fanfare, the city council last month approved three amendments to city law that essentially rewrites the definition of family in Minneapolis. And despite the historic nature of the measures, the amendments’ author, Council Member Scott Benson (11th Ward) says he was not surprised by the outcome.
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Under-the-radar local info
Thursday 04 September @ 15:08:48 (Read: 2688) |
by Craig Cox
Synergy academy closing may spark lawsuit
The decision by the Hennepin County Board to drop its funding of Synergy Academy, the pilot out-of-home placement program for black families, has sparked an angry call for a lawsuit and a boycott of the county’s African American Men Commission.
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